Would you have sex with a person who has herpes?

In My Humble Opinion
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Great post, lezlers.

[hijack] And YO! Last month I’m reading a really good crime novel and about mid-way through it this really hot, tough, smart, female assistant D.A. enters the cast of characters. After one paragraph about her I’m thinkin’ “It’s lezlers! Right here in my book!”
So even if you’re not out of law school yet, you are already famous in print. Check out 1st To Die by James Patterson. You know, if that library ever gets quiet enough for you to read in it. :wink: [hijack]

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Well, considering the amount of women I’ve been with and NEVER having a cold sore; I think I may be immune to the disease. So I don’t think I would care.

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I get a cold sore on my mouth maybe once or twice a year, and have ever since I was a kid. Pretty sure I got it from my mother as a child. Never kiss anyone when I’ve got one, not that anyone would really want to anyways, they’re decently gross. I mostly wanted to post to second something that was mentioned earlier - there is a definite nerve sensation involved in a cold sore, at least on the lips, that has nothing to do with a pimple. I can pretty much always tell when one is coming at least a day in advance, and if I can get some Abreva on it literally RIGHT AWAY (like, no more than an hour or two after I feel the tingle, and then reapply it a few times a day), it doesn’t even really break out sometimes.

The person with the cold sore definitely knows it’s a cold sore - so if it’s someone you know you can trust, and they say it’s a pimple, then it’s probably a pimple. Confusion of the two isn’t really an issue.

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Well hot damn, I’m famous! Except I work for the public defender’s office, not the D.A.‘s office. Those tightasses uptairs’ in the D.A’s office will take anyone. The PD office is much more selective. :wink:

Still a student but I just won my first motion last Friday. Woot! And compared to the library at work (where us lowly clerks live) the library at school is like a freakin’ tomb. Thank GOD.

Thanks for the kind words.

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None doesn’t count. :slight_smile:

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  1. Married to guy just like you describe. We got him acyclovir supressive therapy, and no more nasty lip outbreaks!

I had a “no oral sex during outbreaks” policy though, especially when I was pregnant. If he got a suprise genital outbreak now my reaction would be :smack: , and then off for Valtrex instead of generic acyclovir, because Valtrex does work a bit better, IME.

  1. Dated a guy with gential herpes. Didn’t get it. He wasn’t on supressive therapy, and he had three or so outbreaks a year. Now he’s happpily married and in the process of trying to start a family.

Meanwhile, I have HPV, another thing people commonly wring their hands over and panic about. It’s more likely I would pass that to my husband than he would pass Mr. Herp onto me.

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Right you are.